Senior Business Leader with extensive engineering and operations experience.

Senior leadership position that can utilize my extensive engineering and international business experience in both oil and gas and petrochemicals.

Agrium Inc./ Viridian Inc. 1994 to 2009

Sr. Director Global Energy Supply: Calgary / Buenos Aires Argentina 2007 to June 2009
• President Profertil S.A. Responsibe for Agrium’s South America Wholesale business results.

Sr. Director South America: Calgary / Buenos Aires Argentina: 2005 to 2007
• Vice President Profertil S.A.

Director Technical Services: Calgary 2004 to 2005
• Leadership responsibilities for specialized technical services for Agrium and large project management.
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Operations Manager Profertil Joint Venture: Bahia Blanca Argentina 2000 to 2004
• Acting Project Manager for a new NH3 and Urea complex plus initial start up.
• Site manager for plant start up and operations.

Manager Redwater Nitrogen Operations (RNO): Redwater 1998 to 2000

• Department Manager for World scale NH3, Urea, Nitric Acid, Ammonium Nitrate complex, including operations, maintenance, engineeering, and other support.


Opns Manager Redwater Nitrogen Operations:Redwater 1997 to 1998
• Operations and maintenance for RNO operation.


Manager Engineering: Viridian Inc., (formerly Sherritt Inc.) Fort Saskatchewan 1996 to 1997
• Department Manager for Viridian’s Central Engineering organization.

Technical Section Head Redwater Nitrogen Operatons: Redwater Agricultural Chemicals Complex, Redwater 1991 to 1996
Sherritt.
• Supervisory responsibilities for staff performing operations technical and business support.

Imperial Oil Ltd. - Resources Division 1979 to 1991

Engineering Specialist: Environment & Communications, Calgary 1990 to 1991
• Environmental advisor for climate change and greenhouse gas emission inventories.

Engineering Group Leader: Technical Services Dept., Cold Lake 1987 to 1990
• Supervisory responsibilities for district technical group providing reservoir and facilities technical support>

Team Leader:Cold Lake Engineering Dept., Calgary 1986 to 1987
• Responsible for project development of a plant and field expansion to the Cold Lake Oil Sands Production Project (CLPP) Phases 1-6.


Lead Process-Project Engineer: Cold Lake Major Projects Dept., Calgary 1981 to 1986
• Project scoping from conception to plant start up, for two major oil sands plants.

Engineering Associate: Cold Lake Project, Calgary 1979 to 1981

Education: B.Sc. M-Eng. (Great Distinction), University of Sask. 1979. MBA, University of of Alberta 1998.

Other Training: Darden Busines School - University of Virginia - Developing Managerial Excellence
Imperial Oil Limited - Change Management and Organizational Redesign seminars
Imperial Oil Limited - Management 2
Imperial Oil Limited - Kepner Trego Problem Solving & Decision Making
Imperial Oil Limited - Economic Analysis For Resource Projects
Imperial Oil Limited - Oil and Gas Facilities
Imperial Oil Limited - Heavy Oil / Thermal Recovery
Imperial Oil Limited - Heavy Machinery
Imperial Oil Limited - Reservoir Engineering

I have a strong track record of successfully combining both business and technical skills in resolving difficult and complex issues. Key skills include: Critical Thinking, Resourcefullness, Problem Solving, Change Management. Highly effective in Team Building, Mentoring and Leading Employees in different cultural settings. Fluent in Spanish with extensive Expatriate experience in Argentina and other parts of South America. Broad background in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, Business Development which is effectively combined with a collaborative and situational management style to produce high quality results.